Praseodymium fluoratum: my classmates think I am evil

by Katharina Riedener

First
consultation: June 16, 2009. The patient is female, seven and a half years old, dark
haired with olive skin and dark almond-shaped eyes. Very articulate, engaging
and well-spoken for her age, she behaves like a young woman and looks like one
as well.

Her presenting symptoms are excessive worry, ADD, OCD, and
separation anxiety from her parents - she panics even if her parents are
outside on the farm, working. She cannot be left at a baby sitter’s or a
relative’s house.

She is the first born, with two miscarriages prior; the
mother had hormone treatments at age 34, which led to the pregnancy.

Mother: “I had to be on bed rest for a big part of my
pregnancy because I was considered high risk. The baby was devouring me; she
sucked all the life out of me.

She was born six weeks early; that was the only traumatic
part. I had a natural birth. They kept her in the hospital for three weeks, to
monitor and regulate her - she would have been fine, she was able to breathe on
her own. I breastfed for six months - a happy baby.”

She had RSV and pneumonia at 14 months, and she uses a
puffer. She is allergic to dogs, with wheezing, stuffed-up nose, itchy eyes,
and has itchy eczema on her arms and elbows.

She has constipation from milk, and is better if she is
lactose free.

Patient: “I am evil;
one of my classmate’s thinks I am so evil. I think I act evil to him, but I
don’t mean to be.”

P: “Yes, he thinks
he is the boss of everything and I don’t want him to believe that, so I have to
let him know. I think I am very silly and funny; every time when I say a joke
to my friends, they really laugh very hard; I make funny faces a lot. My
friends say I talk too much; I like to talk a lot and make silly stuff. I pose
a lot.”

She is showing me a really seductive look over the right
shoulder. (Mother later sends me pictures: in every picture she does the
seductive pose; she looks like a grown-up woman trying to seduce a man.)

P: “I want to be a fashion designer for pets’
clothing. I play with babies -
mostly play dress-up with my friends. I used to be mean. Because I think I said
a lot of mean words to my friends; the problem is that with me every time I see
people fight I like that, but now I am trying to change that. I like seeing my
girl friends fight, but I don’t want to be that mean to them. I am afraid of my
parents leaving me somewhere, if they would be shot. Sometimes, I’m afraid of
the dark, or my door being locked when I was camping. I did that in a washroom
too, I easily panicked about being locked in. My worries are when my parents
leave me and they are not coming back; then I start to shake and my teeth start
to shake. When I worry, I get a tummy ache, then I worry more and I worry about
puking, and my fingers get all sweaty. I have problems with that worry that I
have to puke…”

Mother: “She has an obsession with clothes: she would have
a closet full of clothes and she would take a crayola marker and would mark
them up. If she didn’t like something on that piece of clothing she would write
on it; she was obsessed with nice clothing. That went on for about a year; I
would stick her into a room and ask her to think about it, and she kept saying
‘I don’t know.’ I took her clothes out of her room and then she went into her
sister’s room and did it.”

P: “I forget what
was the matter with that piece of clothing, and it has a mark on it and then I
write on it. I like sucking on stuff - my hair and my clothes sometimes. I care
about my shirts, not as much as my dresses; I like my shirts the way they look.”

M: “She also has a tendency to excessive hand-washing,
when she has a cold, to the point of her hands getting raw; this showed up even
before kindergarten. I totally believe that she is ADD, I can’t give her a
bunch of stuff that she needs to do - it has to be in two’s.”

Analysis

Lanthanides:

- Precocious child, behaviour and looks of an adult
- Self-analytical
- Aversion to people who are controlling
- Allergies
- Premature birth

Praseodymium (Stage 5):

- OCD
- Fear of parents leaving her
- Insecure on the inside but presenting the opposite (jokes, etc.)
- Precocious yet, extreme separation anxiety, back and forth between presenting
as an adult and as a child.

Fluoratum:

- Posing in a seductive way
- Feeling that she is evil
- Feeling dirty
- Obsession with clothes
- Fertility treatment
- Premature birth and hospital stay (separation, rejection)
- Between good and evil

Prescription: Praseodymium fluoratum 1M

Follow-Ups

July 24, 2009For a few days, she woke up every night wanting to go to
the parent’s bedroom; really anxious for the first few days. Worries have
become less, no panic when worrying.Mother: “After the second dose (three weeks after the
first dose), she has been at the baby sitter’s every day and didn’t even ask
about me once during the day!”No allergies or chest complaints. She had a couple of
stomach aches but no vomitting, no more sweating on fingers.

August 29, 2009Patient: “We haven’t
had any worries. I probably will not have any worries anymore. I go to day care
every day now; I play so much that I forget about worries.”Sleeping well, no more hair sucking or clothes marking.

September 16, 2009Started school, everything is going great. Mother went
away for two weeks, which was not a problem.

December 1, 2009Everything is going great; she is now going for sleepovers
at friend’s houses; no worries.

August 30, 2011She did really well up until the last couple of weeks. Her
worries have flared up a bit, mainly about going to a new school.